Sharp County record., 1887-10-20

E, G, HENDERSON, Proprietor
EVENING SHADE. ARKANSAS
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
THE presidential party arrived a
Omaha, Neb., on the 18th.
THE American Bankers Association be
gan its annual convention at Pittsburgh
Pa, on the 10th.
FRENCH and Italian ill.feeling appear
TO be intensifying because of ltaly's al
lance with Germany.
MAJOR g. H. BURTON, Inspector
General of the Department of the Mis-
souri,, is engaged in inspecting the forts i
the Indian Territory.
THE election of Sir. Charles Tupper, o
Halifax, N s., to the Dominion House o
Commons has been voided on account o
bribery by his agents.
SAN FRANCISCO has three bribery sensa
tions, the details of which read like com
panion pieces to Jake Sharpe's New Yorl
history in the same line.
ADvICEs from Shanghai report that tn
English gunboat Wasp, which left Singa
pore for Shanghai, is believed to hav
been lost with all hands during the recen
typhoon.
THE Duchess of Cumberland, who wa
put into a Vienna insane asylum som'
months ago, has completely recovered hei
reason, and will leave the institution in {
few days.
J.T ODELL, assistant general manager
of the Northern Pacific, Eastern division
has resigned and accepted the position OF
general manager of the Chesapeake &
Ohio at salary of $4,000 year.
IT is about settled that no one will ever
know definitely how many persons per.
ished in the recent Chicago & Atlantic
horror near Kouts, Ind. The estimates
continue to vary from thirty down to ten'
1T may be put down as a settled fact
that the Government officials will do all in
their power to thoroughly investigate the
many recent complaints made by people
in Iowa regarding the eviction of settlers
from lands.
THE greatest ball game Of the season
was the third of the worlds championship
series, played at Detroit, Mich, on the
18th. Thirteen innings were required to
decide it, the score finally resulting to
in favor of the Detroits.
A TERRIBLE railroad disaster occurred
near Kouts, Ind, on the night of the 10th,
in which it is believed thirty human lives
were lost. The railroad officials appear to
be trying to suppress the worst features
of the accident, and its cause.
THE court at Leipsic has sentenced John
Nevee, one of the German Anarchists, to
fifteen years. penal seryitude. He was
convicted of melting to high treason,
violating the explosives law, of circulating g
forbidden pamphlets and of perjury.
The United States grand-jury in session
at Tucson, Ariz., has discovered that or
ganized cattle thieves have been stealing
cattle from the Indians on the San Carlos
reservation during the past year. Severa
very prominent citizens are implicated.
THE International encampment at Chi
cago has not been success financially
The local companies are receiving no cast
on prizes awarded, and the visiting com
panies are settling on the best terms
possible, some taking fifty per cent. ant
some taking parts of accounts in notes.
DHULEEP SINGH and the executive com
mittee of the Indian Liberation Society are
printing on the Irish secret press in Paris
an appeal to the natives Of British India
to awake from their topper and prove that
they are no longer the dupes of English
merchants and the slaves Of English gov
ernors.
Ara village election at Alfred Center
N. Y, on the 18th, ten women cast votes
and the election officers received them, de
clarng that the legal opinions gathered
and published by Hamilton Wilcox, coun
sci for the Woman's Suffrage party, had
convinced them of the legal right of WON.
en- to vote.
A DELEGATIoN of the Oneida Indian
tribe of Wisconsin had an interview with
Secretary Lamar on the 18th in regard tc
taking the lands in severalty. They also
presented certain matters affecting the in.
terests of the tribe, among which was a
request for an appropriation Of 100000 tC
set them up in farming.
THE English cutter Galatea, with Lieu
tenant and Mrs. HEM aboard, weighed
anchor on the afternoon Of the 18th, of
Bay Ridge, N. Y, and started Nr home
There was stiff northwest wind blowing
and though the weather was cloudy and
inclined to rain, many yachtsmen assem-
bled to see the cutter off.
THE jury at Mitchellstown, Ireland, rem
dered verdict of murder against In
spector Brownrigg, Sergeants, Kirwan
Ryder and Brennan and Constables Gavan
and Doran. After the verdict the coroner
issued warrants for the arrest Of Head
Constable Brownrigg and the other police
men found guilty by the jury.
SOMETHING Of sensation was caused at
the Norman conference at Salt Lake City,
on the Sth, by the appearance in the pulpit
of Apostle Erastus Snow, who preached a
long discourse. Snow has been hiding for
more than year to avoid arrest for un.
lawful cohabitation, this being his first